DuckDuckGo announced the next version of their privacy search engine at https://next.duckduckgo.com/.

New information has been leaked about a favoriting service Google is working on called Google Stars, which will let users save, share, and organize content found on the web. The leaked information, including screenshots and a video, shows the variety of features that will be included in Google Stars A hat tip goes out to The Next Web for reporting details that were revealed by Google+ user Florian Kiersch, who recorded a video showing exactly what Google Stars testers have access to at this stage of development. According to the video, the primary screen is populated with an image-rich grid full […] The post New Information Leaked About Google’s Favoriting Service, Called ‘Google Stars’ by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

About a week ago, Google began sending out a nice number of SSL warnings via Google Webmaster Tools. Google has paused those warnings…

Posted by JamesAgate There is an awful lot of controversy

A WebmasterWorld thread has some publishers bracing themselves for a pretty bad earnings month via Google AdSense. Why…

Facebook announced this week that new video metrics in Page Insights and Ads Reporting are coming soon. Facebook’s goal is to help users better understand how people respond to videos

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Re-imagining Google: America’s Favorite Homepage Gets A Redesign By Letter Society Blog Early last month, the design blog Letter Society posted a challenge… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

With Google stepping up its efforts to penalize link networks and those who buy and sell links, and algorithms like Panda meant to reward sites with high-quality content, how important will backlinks be to Google’s search algorithm in the future?